Interaction and cross-talk between non-coding RNAs

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 467-484

  Yamamura, Soichiro ^a,b   Imai Sumida, Mitsuho ^a,b   Tanaka, Yuichiro ^a,b   Dahiya, Rajvir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular RNA; Competing endogenous RNA; Interaction; Long non coding RNA; MicroRNA; PIWI interacting RNAs; Small nucleolar RNA

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR RNA; COMPETITIVE ENDOGENOUS RNA; GENOMIC DNA; HOTAIR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 142; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 27; MICRORNA 675; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN P53; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA H19; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALGORITHM; APOPTOSIS; BINDING SITE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; EPISTASIS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 85028329412     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-017-2626-6     Document Type: Review

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